From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: The Basics
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Loading, selecting, aligning, and distributing layers - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: The Basics
Loading, selecting, aligning, and distributing layers
- [Instructor] As you get more comfortable working with layers there are a few shortcuts that are going to help us become much more efficient. So I will return to Bridge and I want to open up the peppers, the pumpkins, the strawberries and the tomatoes, and add them to our composite document. But instead of just using Command + O or Control + O on Windows to open them each in their own documents, I'm going to use the tools menu, select Photoshop, and then load these files into Photoshop layers. That tells Bridge to hand off each one of those photographs and put it into a single document. Now it didn't add it to the harvest document because it's not sure if we want that, it created a new document and we can see on the Layers Panel, we have all four of those layers. All right, let's tile the two open documents. We can do that using the custom keyboard shortcut that we assigned or we can just use window and then arrange, and…
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